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Bros & Foster against Walter L. Conwell. A part of the decree reads as follows: That the complainant has the sole right to make use of the name "Fairchild" in connection with the term "Essence of Pepsine." Conwell had engaged in a method of substitution that no doubt is common, namely, filling physicians prescriptions which specified Fairchild's Essence of Pepsine, with an essence of pepsine made by himself. The decree perpetually enjoins said Walter L. Conwell, his agents and employees from selling or dispensing any "Essence of Pepsine" or pharmaceutical preparation of any sort or kind whatsoever not manufactured by Fairchild Bros. & Foster, in imitation of or in substitution for "Fairchild's Essence of Pepsine" whenever Fairchild's Essence of Pepsine" is prescribed or asked for.

RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.

Hall Mobile County Medical Society, April 4, 1903. Your committee appointed to draft resolutions commem. orative of the death of our late fellow member, Dr. Goronwy Owen, beg leave to report as follows:

On the 29th day of March of the present year this society sustained an irreparable loss in the death of Dr. Goronwy Owen, one of its oldest and most honored members. Dr. Owen was born in this city on November 11, 1834, and was consequently in his sixty-ninth year at the time of his death. After receiving his academic education at the University of Alabama, he began the study of medicine and was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1857. Returning to Mobile he engaged in the prac tice of his profession, which he continued until his death. On July 2, 1858, he became a member of the Mobile Medical Society, the immediate progenitor of the present medical organization. He was successively elected secretary, president and member of the Board of Censors, which latter position he filled continuously for twenty-five years, an irrefutable evidence of the confidence and esteem in which he was held by his colleagues.

It would require talent more exalted than that possessed by your committee to give adequate expression to the estimate in which Dr. Owen was held by either his professional associates or by the community with which he had so long been identified, into whose homes he had often gone like a minister of mercy to give comfort and hope to troubled spirits, and with healing balms to assuage their physical ills. Such a task we will not essay, since the scenes of grief and sorrow evidenced at his funeral are ample attestations of the warm place which he had attained in the hearts of all. Devoted to his vocation he put into his work every energy and labored enthusiastically and unceasingly to benefit his fellows. His whole life was characterized by great personal honesty, purity and sincerity, qualities which are essential to constitute true moral greatness, and which at once command the admiration, affection and confidence of all.

To this society he was a valuable member, meeting in a conscientious manner every demand made upon him and, exercising in every available way his talents and influence for its advancement and betterment. The life of such a man is of lasting and permanent value to a community, not by reason of the absolute amount of work done, but more because that in it we find confirmation of the fact that honesty, integrity, purity and devotion to duty command not only confidence and respect, but success of the most enduring order. We may well pause and contemplate the personal attributes which he possessed, and derive inspiration for lives more nearly in accord with the ideals which he erected for his guidance and to the attainment of which he labored. He requires no eulogy at our hands for his best and most enduring monument is in the permanent lodgement which he found in the hearts of those to whom with skill he ministered.

Resolved, That in the death of Dr. Goronwy Owen this society has lost one of its most useful and honored members, the community a citizen whose personal worth makes his death a public calamity.

Resolved, That while we bow submissively to the inexorable demands of Providence, we sincerely deplore the loss

which all have sustained in the death of this good and exemplary physician and philanthropic citizen.

Resolved, That we tender to his bereaved family our profound sympathy in this, the dark hour of their bereavment.

Resolved, That these resolutions be spread on a page of the minutes of this society especially set apart for that purpose, that they be published in The Mobile Daily Register, and that a copy suitably engrossed be transmitted to the family of our deceased friend and colleague.

E. L. MARECHAL, M. D.

W. H. SLEDGE, M. D.
RHETT GOODE, M. D.

To the memory of Dr. Goronwy Owen, adopted by the Faculty of the Medical College of Alabama.

Whereas, it has been the will of an all-wise Father to remove from this sphere of usefulness our worthy and esteemed colleague, Professor Goronwy Owen, therefore be it resolved:

First, That this faculty, in common with the people of Mobile, mourn the death of this noble physician and faithful teacher, who was true to God and faithful to duty, and who in departing bequeathed no legacy save such as is redolent of honor, probity, purity and general moral excellence.

Second, That his public life which typified the painstaking teacher, the earnest physician and true christian gentleman, shall ever remain a royal heritage and an abiding inspiration to greater devotion to the welfare of our institution.

Third, That our faculty extend our deepest sympathy to the bereaved family in this hour of their affliction.

Fourth, That a copy of these resolutions be spread on a page of the minute book; also be sent to the family of our deceased colleague, and be published in The Mobile Register.

GEO. A. KETCHUM, M. D.

С. А. Монк, M. D.

T. H. FRAZER, M. D.

Committee.

CLINICAL SOCIETY OF THE NEW YORK POLYCLINIC, MEDICAL SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL

Meeting held January 4, 1903. The President Dr. Alexander Lyle, in the chair.

TRACHOMA

Dr. Earl Connor read a short paper on trachoma. He said in part: under "trachoma" are grouped a variety of conditions, apparently dissimilar, whose characteristic is hypertrophy of tissue. Clinically we can safely accept the teaching of Prof. Born as to the differential diagnosis. First, there are cases which may be classed under the head of lymphoid hypertrophy or follicular or granular conjunctivitis. The condition is one of slight consequence to the health of the eye, as it may exist for weeks or months, until absorption takes place, and the mucous membrane returns to its normal condition. Cases in which lymphoid hypertrophy and ulceration coexist and socalled "mixed" cases, lead to confusion. These are the ones that are subject to operation and promptly cured: but they get well under the use of simple astringents and by the correction of the strumous condition which underlies it. The cervical glands are nearly always hypertrophied.

True trachoma is characterized by minute ulcers on the epithelial surfaces of the conjunctivæ and cornea, with more or less profuse cell infiltration. In the lymphoid cases, there are no changes in the structure of the lids or cornea. In the ulcerous type the changes are more or less extensive and progressive, and it is not a self-limited process. The infiltration and cicatrization continue until a state of atrophy of the conjunctiva is reached, and a more or less dense opacity of the cornea results.

Sequelæ It is only the patients who have the lightest attack, or those who come under treatment early, who escape more or less serious impairment of the eyes. Distortion of the eyelids, with faulty disposition of the cilia is common. In ex

treme cases the cilia are brought into constant contact with the cornea, causing pain and increased reduction of the poor vision by cell infiltration. The contraction of the cicatricial tissue causes atrophy of the mucous glands and, in the final stages, reduce the conjunctiva to a dry, cuticular membrane.

Corneal opacities are the after-effect of both ulcers of the cornea and of pannus, it is true, may disappear completely by a process of reabsorption, so that the cornea reacquires its normal transparency, but often, further changes take place in the pannus, which render its disappearance impossible. Transformation into connective tissue occurs if the pannus is of long duration. Such a cornea never becomes perfectly clear again. This is true of cases in which the pannus is complicated by ulcers; the regions which are occupied by the latter likewise becomes permanently opaque. Trachoma is a disease which is distinguished by its duration, in many cases rendering those who are attacked by it wholly or half blind. Add to this the fact that because of its infectious nature it is exceedingly apt to spread, and one can understand why in those regions in which it is epidemic, it is a veritable scourge.

Treatment: In the acute stages the application of silver nitrate until the secretion is lessened, and then of sulphate of copper (blue stone) as the condition demands more or less stimulation, will give the best results.

Dr. W. E. Lambert opened the discussion, said that there is a great deal of uncertainty regarding the pathology of trachoma, as the bacillus has not yet been discovered. There is little doubt, however, that it is contagious. The so-called various forms of trachoma are simply different stages of the disease. He differed with Dr. Connor as to treatment, stating that he was convinced by considerable experience that in all cases in which granulations are present, the operation of expression gives the quickest and best results.

RENAL CACULUS.

Dr. J. A. Bodine showed a renal calculus which he had removed from the pelvis of the kidney of a patient 55 years old. For the past nine years, the man had suffered from a dull, aching pain in the right loin. During the first two years

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